Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-04-30
The Prssnasntsai Outlook.

II Will only be year before the nomi-
uA&1ng conventions will be meeting in
- States TO elect delegates to . nA-
oAsaAl convention to nominate candi.
1ates for the Presidency, and It is only
91gAteen months until President IL to
- eloCted. How many candidates will
- u the Geld under party nominations
- - hard TO tell ~ 1t 10 to tell the
nA1les Of the parties that will have can.
Alaatss. There will presumably be o
Labor party, Temperance party, 3
0pesnback party possibly, and most
0uuredly , Republican and . Demo.
0sAtic party. There IL no doubt that
Ate contest will lie between the latter
$50 parties, ~ 1t has for the last thirty
gears, and from present appearances
sAese will either be Q Democratic or .
Republican President after March Al,
1160. From tho present outlook 1t IL
~ hard to tell who the leading candi
aAess will be, though circumstances
MAy arise that may prevent Grover
Cleveland from becoming the Demo.
01a1ic candidate TO succeed himself, and
Janea g. Blaine the Republican candi
da1s. The only active opponent O.
Cleveland IL Governor Hill from hi
Own State, bus the available opponents
sUe lfr. Blaine ere Senators Sherman
AMasen, HAwley and Ingalls, and ex
Secretary Of War Lincoln. The contes
q Cleveland and Blaine are the oppos
ong candidates will be an exciting one
xAore are thousands of Democrats wht
Wiil mot support Cleveland and Their,
ne Thousands Of Mugwump Republi
oaAs who will not support Blaine
though many who opposed him In 1885,
Wau support him In 1888. While 1t 4
hardly doubted that Mr.. Blaine will
0axy oil the States he first carried ant
With much better chance OF carrying
New York, New Jersey and Indiana
h will most undoubtedly make breAi
anto the solid South and carry Virgini
md North Carolina, with . fair pros
Rsot Of carrying Tennessee.
The Democrats Of those States hsv'
hssn terribly disappointed in Cleveland
not exactly because he dallies in tn
lap Of the Mugwump section OF tn
Republican party, but because he ha
not been friend to the best interests G
The South, and this has been divide
BY the psrverse action OF Democrat
house Of Representatives. The Who'll
story OF the opposition to Cleveland i
Ahese Southern States Is told in fe'
words by General Thomas L. Rosse
formerly of Virginia but now Of Mir
nesots, who has lately been visiting /
VirgiDi his native State. Mr.. Rose
was . dashing Confederate, cavalr
header ana IL Democrat. He was re
GENTLY asked his opinion as to the o!i
oai outlook in the SoutE and expresse
m opinion that the splid South ws
already broken. He believes Vlrgini
and North Carolina are lost to tt
Democracy and will surely be Repu'
lican In the ne8t Presidential contes
He says t6le people are thoroughly di
-satlsfi ede IN the work Of the 10
pnH rsnl House OF Representative
rsc$ az DC lid to see the tariff revise'
a. tobacco tax removed, the eiuoatio
81 bill psss6d land q distribution
some OF the surplus for internal IN
provements. They got no tariff revi
iou, no repeal OF the tobacco tax, al
NO aid for the public schools, and whs
Congress managed to squeezs through
littis River and Harbor bill, so as
give them few pickings down ther
the President killed 1t with peck
veto. This 1, the whole story in nu
shell, and onc.ud.ug, tho ex-Confede
ate leader eaid: 1--WE have loet Virgin
And North Carolina the solid South
broken and probably 1t will never
solid again."